Some things you should know when coming to REBarCampRye

We’re glad we will be seeing you at RE Bar Camp Rye !

Just a few notes on what the day holds and the loose schedule so you know when to arrive and whats going on. Of course sessions will be determined in the morning, but if you have some cool or neat ideas of something you’d like to see or present on you’re welcome to  email  us as well.

If you haven’t read-here is a FABULOUS primer on what to expect from @MayaREGuru : Heading to your First RE Bar Camp ? Here’s a Primer.

Here are the details for #REBCRYE

Attire: Casual,be comfortable !

Date : Saturday , September 11th, 2010

Location :

Hilton Rye Town

699 Westchester Avenue

Rye Town, NY 10573

Self parking at the hotel is free, valet parking is $14.

If you’re taking the Metro North from Manhattan you take the train (New Haven Line) to Rye  from Grand Central Station or Harlem 125th Station (schedule and fare information at www.mta.info ) and a taxi from station to hotel.

• 8:30 am registration, coffee and networking.
• 9-9:15am Welcome,introductions and explanations of how sessions will be set up.
• 9-9:15am Sessions put up on board.
• 9:30 am-10:15am Session 1
• 10:30am-11:15am Session 2
• 11:30am-12:15pm Session 3
• 12:15pm-1:15pm Lunch
• 1:30pm-2:15pm Session 4
• 2:30pm-3:15pm Session 5
• 3:30pm-4:15pm Session 6
• 4:30pm Closing remarks,raffle. Networking.

Thank you for choosing to attend and participate ! We all look forward to seeing you Saturday ! And if you have NOT RSVP’d yet,please do so ! :) (and tell your friends about it too !!!!) Get to know your sponsors,thank them,thank the volunteers and have FUN !

Questions ? Suggestions ? Contact nbeauchamp@warburgrealty.com

Welcome Back! We're so excited to be a part of the first ever REBarCamp/Rye and we hope you are too! Please take a moment to RT and/or "LIKE" the site and share with all your friends Hope to see you on Sept. 11th!
Interested in sponsoring? Contact Steve Babbitt

Top ten reasons why you should be at RE Bar Camp Rye !

10. You have nothing else to do on a Saturday .

 9. You’re kind of curious what all this social media stuff everyone is talking about is.

 8. You want to learn, but you’re leery of all these expensive conferences around. Did you know REBCRYE is FREE

7. You have started to Tweet, but you feel like a Twit ….

 6. Facebook is like a foreign country to you. (Ok ,a really HUGE foreign country)

 5. When you think of using video, you think of how confused you were when MTV launched.

 4. You want to see how other people are integrating technology into their businesses.

 3. You want to share how much you feel like a Twit.

 2. You want to share what you know, meet new people, network and grow .

 1.We will be there to share what we’re doing and how it’s working-we were in your shoes once.

All in jest-but knowledge is growth and power. If your goal is to learn and use social media-to learn how to integrate technology into your business-to enhance-then THIS is the event for you. This isn’t JUST about social media, it is about connecting,engaging,offline,in the real world. We ARE you, who better to talk to then people who are and have been in the trenches as active real estate professionals? We’ve got some great people attending,at all levels of knowledge,some awesome people planning on participating-including Chris Smith from Tech Savvy Agent ,a blog which recently won most innovative blog at Inman this year !

So why exactly aren’t you registering RIGHT NOW ????

RSVP,now-less than two weeks to go ! See you on September 11^th at the Hilton Rye Town. Don’t miss out !

Have any questions-feel free to reach out to any of us and we’ll answer !

A bit of what an RE Bar Camp is, and why there’s one on 9/11

What is a barcamp?

From the www.rebarcamp.com  website:

The concept for RE Bar Camp came from a technology BarCamp event held in San Francisco. Wikipedia defines a barcamp a: An international network for user generated conferences-open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

RE BarCamp is a BarCamp for Real Estate-what that means-the event is not structured like a typical planned conference. Every session isn’t planned out in advance. No one is paid to deliver a session. Anyone can deliver a session, and attendees are strongly encouraged to participate.

Anyone can lead a session, anyone can participate-or you can feel free to suggest topics that you maybe want to learn more about. It is very much what YOU make of it.

REBarCamp events are run completely by unpaid volunteers; they are typically free because of the support of sponsors.

This is NOT a for profit venture, it is very much a labor of love-to provide a forum where you can comfortably attend,network,learn,grow and participate.

Why 9/11 ?

Having an event on this day was not by design. The New York State Association of Realtors ® has their Fall Business Meetings beginning on September 12^th  .It was suggested at the Winter Business Meeting that a RE Bar Camp be held on the 11^th and they are a sponsor, providing the venue at the Rye Town Hilton.

For all of us ,as a nation collectively ,9/11 is a somber day, a day of remembrance of a most horrific series of terrorists acts that morning.

For those of us in the NYC metropolitan area, our experience of the events of that day, isn’t how we saw it on TV or read about it-it’s how we LIVED it, and how we still live it. Many of us had deeply personal ties and suffered losses of family, friends, colleagues and other loved ones.

The decision to incorporate the obvious significance of the date into the logo was meant in deference and honor to the very acute meaning of the day, and its losses in our area. It was not meant to defame ,or attempt to profit in any way shape or form. Because of the date of the BarCamp,the planning committee decided that there will be a philanthropic component to it-and we are in the process of narrowing down a 9/11 related charity to which a donation will be made (after covering expenses for event, funds exceeding will be donated ).

We hope that you will join us on Saturday September 11^th 2010 for RE Bar Camp in Rye, NY.  For more information or to RSVP go to www.rebarcamprye.com. Follow us on Twitter @REBCRYE .Event hashtag #REBCRYE and join our facebook page at http://facebook.com/rebcrye .